Sounds like Pay 2 Win if you have to subscribe to get the better weapons. I didn't look that close at the details though. Had a subscription a long time ago but it felt very grindy and did not hold my interest that long.

Jersoc, I believe you have to open the skill wheel window and over on the left where you pick the skills there are little squares representing your hotbar slots. You can click on the square for where you want each skill.

Looks like I did have my inventory window locked somehow.

Honestly, the game was doing nothing for me and I deleted it off my hard drive already. Glad some of the rest of you are enjoying it.

Running the file checker put me back in windowed mode. Apparently fullscreen mode was causing my crashes. So I got back in and opened my inventory window. Now it won't close! If I hit "I" a second time the various buttons go away but the grayed out background and grid remain on the screen. Quitting and restarting did not get rid of it. Yes, it's beta but it's hard to imagine how this stuff did not get fixed yet.

When you preorder and register your serial number, is Guild Wars 2 supposed to show up in your game list under the NCSoft account management page? I got an error halfway through the registration process and want to verify I am good to go for this weekend.

I have the client installed and ready to go for beta weekend. Don't see it on my NCSoft accounts page.

They've said there will be approximately one beta weekend per month (the first one being April 20th-22nd), although they haven't said for how many more months the beta is going to last. They've also said pre-purchasing will get you three days of early access when the game does go live...

OK I did not know there was one beta already announced, and one a month after that. Thanks.

So they are taking preorders but have not said anything about the launch date or when/how many betas that will get you into if you buy?! Sounds like selling a pig in a poke to me. I will preorder at some point but they're going to have cough up some more info first.

So yeah Knighshade we want to know the release date and when/how many beta weekends are coming.